Saturday, September 29, 2012
A pair of events Friday honored the Missouri National Guard Agricultural Development Team.
The majority of a Missouri National Guard squad which has seen members serving in Afghanistan since 2008 and which survived an insurgent attack in April has returned to American soil in recent weeks. The Missouri National Guard's Agricultural Development Team, which one member said was referred to by Afghan locals as the "Farmers With Guns" unit, was welcomed home by Monsanto Friday night in Creve Coeur. The group was to be recognized at a St. Charles concert featuring actor Gary Sinise's "Lt. Dan Band" later Friday night. The unit was charged with helping win the hearts and minds of Afghan farmers, who were using a farming approach from the early 1900s and were growing crops used to fund terroism. The unit includes two soldiers and …
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Non-violent actions call out Monsanto's opposition to California ballot measure pushing food labeling.
Planned worldwide protests of Monsanto came to the company's Creve Coeur headquarters Monday, as approximately 50 people demonstrated in front of the company's Olive Boulevard entrance near Warson Road. For more photos from the protest, check out Creve Coeur Patch on Facebook Unlike other protests worldwide which sought to disrupt company business and resulted in arrests, the gathering here Monday was calm by comparison. Creve Coeur Police officers were present, and protesters were notified that cars parked at Stacy Park in Olivette would be towed. Those in attendance were supportive of Proposition 37 in California, which is a November ballot initiative that if passed, would require the labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms, or GMOs. …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Institute for School Partnership’s cornerstone program to have permanent home on campus.
Washington University's Institute for School Partnership has received a $2.2 million grant from the Monsanto Fund to take the Institute’s cornerstone program, MySci, to the next level. In its eighth year serving the St. Louis community, MySci’s mission is to cultivate the region’s next generation of scientists by engaging elementary students in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) through interactive learning experiences and creative curriculum. Its familiar multi-colored “Investigation Station” bus has been a welcome site in the community since 2005. In the past eight years, MySci programs have impacted 43,837 elementary students and worked with 108 schools in the St. Louis area. In addition, 2,334 area science teachers have …
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Candidate for the First Congressional district seat sits in the 'Colbert Report' hot seat.
Late night funny man Stephen Colbert has made a habit out of putting members of Congress in uncomfortable spots over the years in a regular segment on his satirical program, The Colbert Report. Thursday night, that segment featured U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-St. Louis), who is locked in a redistricted primary with U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay in the 1st Congressional district. But Colbert began the Q & A focusing on Monsanto, the Creve Coeur agri-giant. Colbert asked if the company's headquarters were in his district (the new 1st), and Rep. Carnahan said it was. Click here to go to the Colbert Nation website to see the segment Under the new boundaries, the company's headquarters appear to be physically located in the new 2nd Congressional …
Thursday, August 2, 2012
The ruling is the latest in a series of cases between the Creve Coeur-based firm and DuPont.
A St. Louis federal court jury ruled in favor Creve Coeur-based Monsanto Wednesday, awarding a billion dollars in damages to the firm after determining that DuPont "had willfully infringed a patent covering Roundup Ready soybeans," The New York Times reported. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the case stemmed from Monsanto's contention that DuPont violated an earlier agreement between the two firms when it combined Roundup Ready with its own product Optimum GAT. DuPont vowed to appeal the verdict. DuPont Statement “DuPont believes that the evidence presented during the trial demonstrated clearly that Monsanto’s Roundup Ready® soybean patent (RE 39,247) is invalid and unenforceable and that Monsanto intentionally deceived the …
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Publication ranks Information Technology employers and finds the Creve Coeur firm tops when it comes to St. Louis-based companies.
A new ranking of "Best Places to" is out, and a Creve Coeur employer is getting some bragging rights out of it. Monsanto was listed as the 29th Best Place to Work in IT in 2012 by ComputerWorld. The publication looked at areas like an employer's budget for training, promotion and turnover rates and perks in assembling the top 100 employers. In the writeup for Monsanto, the publication credits the firm's "yearlong development program designed to help high-potential IT leaders enhance their leadership and interpersonal skills." The praise comes as the city of Creve Coeur is actively reaching out to Information Technology firms around the area. The city's economic development commission recently held a roundtable with some of them who have …
Thursday, April 26, 2012
The EPA partnership got a boost locally when Mercy, the Koman Group and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center agreed to join the "Green Power Challenge".
Creve Coeur is now officially on its way to seeing if it can become the second city in the state of Missouri to be designated as a Green Power Community. City officials and community business leaders formally kicked off a campaign Wednesday at Mercy Hospital St. Louis that was approved by the city council in December. The goal is to be able to offset 3 percent of all energy usage (business, government and residential), or a total of 1,523 megawatt hours by April 2013 with renewable energy sources, either by using solar panels or purchasing Renewable Energy Credits. Clayton became the first community to reach that benchmark in 2011. Mercy Hospital St. Louis, The Koman Group and the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center were saluted …
Washington University to receive honorary degrees at 151st Commencement ceremony May 18.
Washington University in St. Louis will award six honorary degrees during the university’s 151st Commencement May 18. During the ceremony, which will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Brookings Quadrangle on the Danforth Campus, WUSTL also will bestow academic degrees on approximately 2,800 members of the Class of 2012. Alumnus Mike Peters, the 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial cartooning and creator of the award-winning cartoon strip Mother Goose & Grimm, will deliver the Commencement address and receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from WUSTL. The other honorary degree recipients and their degrees are: Mike Peters Peters, who earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from WUSTL in 1965, is recognized as one of the country’s most …
Monday, March 19, 2012
Authorities were prepared in case Occupy demonstrations came to town.
The gathering of Occupy supporters from across the midwest wrapped up over the weekend, and the movement did follow through on plans to protest Creve Coeur-based Monsanto. Creve Coeur Police were prepared with officers on site for much of the day Friday, but demonstrators instead focused on the Missouri Botanical Gardens where the company is a corporate sponsor. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the event went off without incident.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Check out our round-up of local opportunities nearby.
Each week, Patch finds businesses seeking to fill positions in town and in nearby communities. Here are five opportunities we found this week. Who’s Hiring: Monsanto Location: Creve Coeur Job: Java Developer To Apply: Visit the job listing for more information. Who’s Hiring: Hampton Inn Location: Maryland Heights Job: Housekeeper To Apply: Visit the job listing for more information. Who’s Hiring: Student Transit Location: Hazelwood Job: School Bus Mechanic To Apply: Visit the job listing for more information. Who’s Hiring: City of Florissant Location: Florissant Job: Multi-Building Inspector Category: Full Time To Apply: Visit the job listing for more information. NOTE: Job Listing Expires Today! Editor’s note: Patch cannot …
Andrea Kaiser
5:02 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
It's not appropriate to take words out of context. I was speaking about pesticides used, and an economic monopoly! Just keep killing the pests--and let it affect our health as well??? As our medical and health advice tells us it is most important to fill our plates with vegetables and fruit, the SAFETY of it was my concern! I was also speaking about hormones used in meats to keep it FRESH looking… more ›